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Is there any difference between Newtons “method of fluxions” and modern-day calculus?

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Is there any difference between Newtons “method of fluxions” and modern-day calculus?

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The development of calculus took place during the Great Plague, when the University at Cambridge was closed and Newton had retired to the country. Much of the work he did then was eventually published in the form of a book ‘The Method of Fluxions and infinite series’. However, Newton was notoriously slow in formally publishing his work, and this did not appear until some years after his death. This gave rise to the long-term argument with Liebniz over who first developed calculus – the only thing we can be sure about was that Liebniz published first, by many years. Incidentally, a translation by John Colson of Newton’s book, which was originally written in Latin, has been digitised by Google, so you can read the original (or as close to it as you can get) if you so wish. Of course the subject has changed and developed over the years. The dot notation for differentials I remember from the Maths course at college many years ago is now rarely met. But the essence is there – and a lot more

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